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George Stocker
Personal blog · georgestocker.comprogrammingcareer
George Stocker's personal blog at georgestocker.com covers programming and career. Since 2014, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Microservices After Two Years”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Software Development is still in its infancy. You've tried Waterfall, it failed. You've tried agile, and it failed a little less. The vast majority of software projects still exceed their timeline, budget, or fail to meet the goals set out. Chances are you just went through one of these failures or
Most-linked posts?
- Microservices After Two Years5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-01-21
- My Salary Progression in Tech3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-14
- How to destroy Programmer Productivity3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-04
- Please stop recommending Gitflow2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-04
- Software Teardowns: Console.WriteLine (Part 1: Windows)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-25
- Stuff I wish I knew before I went Independent2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-06
What Hacker News says?
I wrote about this some time ago in a ranty way: http://georgestocker.com/2014/04/15/how-to-destroy-programme... I really believe that the open office floor plan led me to leaving my former job -- I simply could not be as productive as I needed to be in an open floor plan environment. I wouldn't be surprised if Open-Office floor plans cost more in productivity than they save in rent. I don't mean to 'hate' on it so…
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on “Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace”Submitted My Salary Progression in Tech as a story · 521 points
HN discussionToday. I get an interstitial every time I log in that tries to get me to enable their VoiceID system (here's a screenshot): https://georgestocker.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/schwabv...
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on “AI-Generated Voice Evidence Poses Dangers in Court”Submitted Please stop recommending Gitflow as a story · 470 points
HN discussion> you'll resign if you don't get them. whoa whoa whoa, settle down my friends. Lets not recommend that someone give up their livelihoods so easily. OP, this was on HN yesterday, check it out: https://georgestocker.com/2019/03/14/my-salary-progression-i... You should take a stand if its something you feel strongly about, but never threaten to quit. it should be a silent promise, not a threat. If they don't appreciate…
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on “Ask HN: Annual Bonus Time, Team's Not Happy”Submitted No one gives a shit what programming language you use as a story · 130 points
HN discussionI don't think recommending git flow is correct here. https://georgestocker.com/2020/03/04/please-stop-recommendin... .
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on “Ask HN: Git alternatives that aren't so complicated?”Submitted How to destroy Programmer Productivity as a story · 54 points
HN discussionI would say you're already using git correctly. What you're doing is called "trunk-based development" (TBD). I recommend doing a little bit of research on it since it's what you seem to want to do anyway. Fully embracing TBD will be WAY easier than learning and using git-flow ( https://georgestocker.com/2020/03/04/please-stop-recommendin... ).
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on “Ask HN: Git alternatives that aren't so complicated?”Submitted Surprises after using .NET Core for six months as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to destroy Programmer Productivity as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices After Two Years as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nulls Are Not the Problem as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to destroy programmer productivity as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading to Yosemite Causes USB Keyboards to Stop Working as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Cancellation Process is Bullshit and it Hurts Your Company Image as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stack Overflow - The Software Community That Josh Heyer Built as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices After Two Years as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices After Two Years as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Salary Progression in Tech as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Got an Army Medal for Programming in VBA as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What should a Programmer be able to do in an hour? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top Then Things You Probably Didn't Know About Stack Overflow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moq adds nagware; Where’s the .NET Foundation in all this? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eric Lippert on Why Programming Languages Turn Out the Way They Do as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stuff I wish I knew before I went Independent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chefs and Cooks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does the .NET Foundation Support OSS? Or Just Microsoft? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices After 2 Years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Questions I have about Async/Await in .NET as a story · 2 points
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